I want to continue with the close integration of health and care services as well as pressing for more NHS dentists and better diagnostic services closer to home.
Amongst all the positive measures the Chancellor set out to support the UK’s covid response and economic recovery the announcement to cut the International Aid Budget did not sit at all well with me.
The G7 Summit has been a part of my world for a long time now. From the outset the agenda has been to grapple with how the world recovers and rebuilds following the pandemic and how this can be done, not just to revert to what was before but to build a fairer more equal green resilient future.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock with West Cornwall MP Derek Thomas and Aisling Khan (Isles of Scilly Council) and Anita Cornelius (Cornwall NHS Foundation Trust).
As I have snatched opportunities to help candidates in the local election this has given to opportunity to get ‘out and about’ across West Cornwall visiting villages and communities I’ve not ventured to for several months.
West Cornwall MP Derek Thomas says that latest figures showing a significant increase in the number of doctors and nurses working in the NHS in Cornwall are an encouraging sign that Government policies are working.
‘I entirely recognise the strong desire to reflect the pride that we feel in our different parts of the United Kingdom. We are at the start of a process. I am not saying either yes or no; we are simply at too early a stage in this process to decide.
